Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) for Properties Explained

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Category: Condition & Repairs

You’ll sometimes come across Planned Preventative Maintenance reports and programmes in an abbreviated form of PPMs.

Often with more significant buildings such as multi-let commercial properties or apartment blocks – they help look at what future maintenance and repairs are due at the property.

Although simple in principle, they can get complex and also expensive. To complete a proper one, they need a lot of detail and can be scary to help realise what nitty-gritty works are required at a property interest.

The secret is to ‘get’ them.

To have a comprehensive version of one is one thing, but to see what the takeaway and urgent issues are is another.

What are Planned Preventative Maintenance Schedules

The RICS has recently issued a...

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The Homes (Fitness for Habitation Act) Now Helping Residential Tenant’s Chase Landlords With Damp etc

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Category: Condition & Repairs

This is a new piece of legislation coming into force to help short-term residential tenants chase a landed with issues like damp that simply make their residence inhabitable.

No more landlords burying their heads in the sand and creaming-in the rents whilst a tenant lives in a dive.

The legislation is basically an amendment to the core Landlord & Tenant Act 1985 through the Homes (Fitness for Habitation Act) - still using HHSRS (Housing Health & Safety Rating System) Regulations and the 29-core issues that make a place inhabitable for a tenant.

Damp is a popular one, bit there are other issues as well.

The 4 ‘R’ Consequences

There is a host of technical information around on this, as with any change in legislation...

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The ‘Chattels & Fixtures’ Predicament With Properties

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Category: Condition & Repairs

When you talk about how an occupier or owner needs to leave a property for say a change in lease or ownership, it can sound very straight forward at first. They just remove what’s there’s and leave it in an acceptable condition.

However, in reality things can get more complicated, as with a lot of things when managing property interests.

And in particular, knowing what items need to stay or go, which can be a grey area with things that look pretty well part-and-parcel of the property but in actual fact may still need removing (or vice verse).

Introducing Chattels and Fixtures

Hence, let’s introduce two words that have technical legal meanings.

Although you may not come across them all of the time and with straight forward say...

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